Open Sources 2.0

Book Description

Open Sources 2.0 is a collection of insightful and
thought-provoking essays from today's technology leaders that
continues painting the evolutionary picture that developed in the
1999 book Open Sources: Voices from the Revolution .

These essays explore open source's impact on the software
industry and reveal how open source concepts are infiltrating other
areas of commerce and society. The essays appeal to a broad
audience: the software developer will find thoughtful reflections
on practices and methodology from leading open source developers
like Jeremy Allison and Ben Laurie, while the business executive
will find analyses of business strategies from the likes of
Sleepycat co-founder and CEO Michael Olson and Open Source Business
Conference founder Matt Asay.

From China, Europe, India, and Brazil we get essays that
describe the developing world's efforts to join the technology
forefront and use open source to take control of its high tech
destiny. For anyone with a strong interest in technology trends,
these essays are a must-read.

The enduring significance of open source goes well beyond high
technology, however. At the heart of the new paradigm is
network-enabled distributed collaboration: the growing impact of
this model on all forms of online collaboration is fundamentally
challenging our modern notion of community.

What does the future hold? Veteran open source commentators Tim
O'Reilly and Doc Searls offer their perspectives, as do leading
open source scholars Steven Weber and Sonali Shah. Andrew Hessel
traces the migration of open source ideas from computer technology
to biotechnology, and Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger and
Slashdot co-founder Jeff Bates provide frontline views of
functioning, flourishing online collaborative communities.

The power of collaboration, enabled by the internet and open
source software, is changing the world in ways we can only begin to
imagine.Open Sources 2.0 further develops the evolutionary
picture that emerged in the original Open Sources and
expounds on the transformative open source philosophy.

"This is a wonderful collection of thoughts and examples by
great minds from the free software movement, and is a must have for
anyone who follows free software development and project
histories."